Chronicles of Boone County

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Dunson, Catherine

Catherine (Murray) Dunson was a young African American woman born November 10, 1918 to Fritz and Pearl Weaver Murray. In the early 1930s, Dunson married Andrew Dunson (b. 1913). The couple had a daughter Pearl Winifred in 1933 that later died at nine months of age. A little over a year later, Catherine Dunson died of Tuberculosis. She was only sixteen years old.